Thread: Flat creen/LED/ TV question

When they delivered my new Samsung 50 inch LED, the kid who was rushing me to sign mentioned that I should expect this thing to burn in, color and quality wise, I guess, in a thousand hours. Is this true? This thing will just get better and better in like, I guess, two years?

Burn in is NOT a good thing or anything that will improve the quality. Actually just the opposite. If you leave the TV on with the same image or logo all the time then it will be burned into the TV screen.
Here is what the manufacturer states:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/Su...61&fm_seq=1429

So do not think if you have burn in that it will be better, it will not.

No, no, I think what he was saying is that it gets better with age.

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

No, no, I think what he was saying is that it gets better with age.

Right, and what RShea is telling you is that he was full of shit.

First question would be what company does this tech guru work for? I suspect he was just a delivery guy or some just above mim. wage type that does not know anything about the technology if he thinks it improves picture quality.

You will have to watch that you do not have the TV in non-high definition with the black bars on the side for constant periods of time, or in 4:3 mode. If you are the type that say watches ESPN for long hours at a time, then you will start to see the ESPN logo down in the corner of the screen even when you are not on the channel....

If it was a Samsung phone with the AMOLED screen, it would start out over saturated and over contrasted. With time the AMOLED screen become a bit dimmer and less contrasty, and will still have vivid colour, but will become more "realistic" in its colours, when compared to how over done they are at the beginning. So in that respect, the AMOLED does get "better" with age (ie. more realistic) through use.

However, that applies only to AMOLED screens.

LED screens can burn in, and that's a bad thing, as per above.

Originally Posted by RShea

First question would be what company does this tech guru work for? I suspect he was just a delivery guy or some just above mim. wage type that does not know anything about the technology if he thinks it improves picture quality.

You will have to watch that you do not have the TV in non-high definition with the black bars on the side for constant periods of time, or in 4:3 mode. If you are the type that say watches ESPN for long hours at a time, then you will start to see the ESPN logo down in the corner of the screen even when you are not on the channel....

I'm no expert, but I've 'heard' that this is not much of a problem with LED/LCD screens, mostly just a problem with Plasmas and such. Think about all of the computers that use LCD screens, hell I even run my PC to my LED Samsung. Images don't burn into LED/LCD screens, otherwise everyone would have a Windows start menu button burned in the lower-left corner.

The LCD I'm using right now has burn marks at the top from the Chrome tabs. It happens. It takes a while, but it happens.

Iscariot, You are right about that. Also blue degrades faster than the other colors. But looks like the they have introduced some large panels with the technology just this year, prior to this year it was 40 inch max from them and usually more popular in smaller panels like cell phones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED

I guess we need to know the exact model number and if it is a standard LED or OLED panel.

Once again I don't think you're cut out for all of this new fangled technology.

Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud

I'm no expert, but I've 'heard' that this is not much of a problem with LED/LCD screens, mostly just a problem with Plasmas and such. Think about all of the computers that use LCD screens, hell I even run my PC to my LED Samsung. Images don't burn into LED/LCD screens, otherwise everyone would have a Windows start menu button burned in the lower-left corner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in LCD is the least susceptible, but ghosting can happen- note the photo on the page of the CNN LOGO. At any rate "burn-in" is usually not a good thing or positive. The increase of color saturation or decrease of harsh color contrast is NOT burn-in. So I will stand by my statement the guy did not know what he was talking about- or was calling it the wrong thing.

Getting back to the original question, what the delivery nitwit was talking about is "burn in" like what is alleged to happen with audio components (including power cords and cables), so that after all the electronics have settled in, then it sounds better.

Again, in audio, generally between 100-1000 hours is alleged to be when a component has fully burned in.

I have three Samsung LED's and haven't seen a bit of difference, with the oldest being three years old. So anyway, if there is any real burn in, it's subtle at best.

Depending on what model you got (an 8000 is a good one to try), you could put a better power cable and see some difference, but again, very, very subtle improvement.

We bought a Samsung 55" LED 3D almost two years ago, along with a Samsung blu ray 3d player. After a couple of weeks, a tech came by to adjust the colors, but dark colors pixilate a lot. Night time black and dark blues do not smoothly blend into each other, instead they form solid blotches. The 3d player also sucks. For some reason Samsung has firmware issues with certain studios and even the newest updates don't alway enable the machine to play. I hope your experience with Samsung products is better than mine has been. I would not buy Samsung again.